Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

The longevity of naturally occurring carbon sinks, like those in Earth’s forests, is a key part of all modeled and projected pathways to net-zero. Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Multiplying proposals Last month the ‘Ocean Visions’ coalition of research institutions released an Arctic Sea Ice Road Map. The company sees this as a way to prevent “a blue ocean event in which Arctic sea ice disappears entirely … a tipping point with catastrophic global consequences.” Where do we go from here?

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Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2022

A lot has been written about the efforts of universities to clean up their own carbon emissions. It will add new departments in oceans and environmental behavior, environment & ecosystems, climate science, and global environmental policy. I want to begin by lamenting the lack of systematic information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By recognizing and documenting the threat of climate change to cultural heritage, we add one more important layer of rights-based obligations to hold nations accountable for reducing carbon emissions. Cultural heritage is under immediate and urgent threat from climate change worldwide.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea —hosting an abundant variety of sea life and crucial habitat for about 25% of all ocean species. Soft corals have soft bodies that can move and flow with the ocean currents. Soft corals do not have hard calcium carbonate skeletons like hard corals do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The ocean bed has a diverse landscape with plenty of challenges, but dealing with a single entity—the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)—for federally controlled waters does have advantages over the potential patchwork of landowners for land-based transmission.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 6, 2021

Seaweed can play a huge role in fighting climate change by absorbing carbon emissions, regenerating marine ecosystems, creating biofuel and renewable plastics as well as generating marine protein. Read the full story in Time.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Carbon removal will be central to decarbonization efforts in the next several decades. We have a rapidly diminishing capacity in the atmosphere and oceans to absorb carbon emissions, and extreme weather events from the past few years make clear that the carbon emissions that have already occurred are causing real harm globally.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Over the years, these reports have analyzed the research to confirm that global warming is occurring, that humans are the cause and that we need to reduce carbon emissions to address it. What does this mean for the ocean? Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The … Continue reading DOE invests over $13 million for projects that capture carbon emissions from industrial facilities, power plants, air, and oceans

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

One important win came when the Dutch court ruled that Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil and gas products the company sells. This is true for a wide variety of impacts, including heat extremes on land and in the ocean, floods, regional drought, and wildfire.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Ocean temperatures are at record highs in the Atlantic, including along the coast of Florida , triggering marine heatwaves and causing harm to marine species and ecosystems. Extreme rainfall and flooding are drowning towns and cities from India to Japan and Korea to the Northeast U.S. Uncontrolled fires are also burning in Greece.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. I was lucky to visit the Grain de Sail on May 18, 2022, midway through its stay in New York, coinciding with yet another virtual meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) sharpening discussions on shipping emissions. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shrimp, skate, sole, cod and other creatures — mostly flat ones — that roam the bottom of the ocean get scooped up in huge nets. It may also be a huge source of carbon emissions. These nets, called bottom trawls, wrangle millions of … Continue reading Bottom trawling shreds the seafloor.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 10, 2021

This blog was written by Susie Goodell, Ocean Conservancy’s Communications intern for the Spring 2021 term and a member of the Dartmouth College Class of 2023, majoring in Environmental Studies. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. What does it mean for our ocean? © Tottenham Hotspur.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 29, 2024

Microbial marine life can thrive off the black carbon released from wildfires and bolster the oceanic carbon sink. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions around the globe. Scientists still emphasize their sequestration role has its limits. By Jenaye Johnson Just last year wildfires generated over 2.1

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. There, we can tackle shipping emissions, which are projected to generate 18% of all global emissions by 2050. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

An underwater gardening experiment along the East Coast aims to restore a type of seagrass called eelgrass, at risk of extinction due to rising sea surface temperatures.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Their projects range from diverting the Mississippi river to protect New Orleans from flooding, to breeding “ super coral ” resistant to bleaching in warming oceans. To understand the mindset of geoengineers, Kolbert meets physicist Klaus Lackner , founder of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

What is the AMOC The AMOC is a complex system of ocean currents driven by differences in temperature and salinity. This process drives a global oceanic conveyor belt, redistributing heat and influencing weather patterns.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 13, 2024

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a strange, diaphanous balloon drifts by. Taking inspiration from nature isn’t new, but marine biomimetics is relatively nascent partly because just 5% of the ocean has been explored. Meanwhile, animals such as the ram’s horn squid have inspired better ways to explore the ocean itself.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 22, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. No less galling than the inaction on HFO and scrubbers were the decisions on short-term GHG emissions—though a shift in the winds may be coming at last. The easiest is to slow the vessel down, reducing both fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Stay connected.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Previous research shows urban trees have significant positive benefits for both cities and their residents including slowing stormwater runoff, reducing energy use, reducing carbon emissions, boosting student achievement, and reducing crime. In Philadelphia, urban trees address a wide variety of goals for multiple city agencies.

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Global Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By converting this waste into high-grade graphene, the partnership seeks to drastically reduce landfill burden and carbon emissions, marking a major step forward in sustainable global development. This collaboration aims to tackle one of the most pressing environmental issues: the accumulation of industrial plastic waste.

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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

On the other hand, those demanding unrealistic immediate zero carbon emissions have made engaging in a non-partisan dialogue on how to move the needle on addressing climate changes more difficult. Efforts to advance alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, etc.), So what’s next? Some argue this is all just part of a cycle.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge. In this case, as funds are more flexible, they will reportedly be used to create a marine PES system, as a way to pay coastal populations to protect the ocean. Debt-for-nature swaps in Costa Rica.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

From the ocean oscillations to trade winds, pressure systems that drives temperature, airborne particles that influence local conditions and even the phases of the moon and Earth's wobble all affect the climate (1). The east of the ocean is colder than normal while the west is warmer than average. What Climatology Is.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

Stop expanding and subsidizing fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and reduce Canada’s carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 to do our fair share globally; Ensure a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, with a plan that supports workers, communities, and marginalized groups in the just and fair transition to a sustainable economy.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Small Islands, Large Oceans: Voices on the Frontlines of Climate Change.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

This year the account funded projects in forest-based carbon sequestration, “blue carbon” (carbon captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems), and climate-smart agriculture. This is dedicated funding for nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.

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Ivy Protocol

AUGUST 23, 2023

For example, Mangrove ecosystems (current Ivy’s focus) rely on a balance of atmospheric and oceanic carbon to sequester carbon effectively.

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Earth 911

AUGUST 4, 2023

The UN’s International Maritime Association reported in 2020 that the shipping industry — the ships. The post Earth911 Podcast: Ship It Zero Aims for a Decarbonized Shipping Industry by 2030 appeared first on Earth911.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. Dilution of salts in our oceans can affect the ecological balance of that ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 25, 2023

When you think of BIG ocean animals , you probably think of blue whales or whale sharks. But, there is a whole class of ocean animals that we should also be thinking of when it comes to size—marine invertebrates. And, when you focus on just the ocean—invertebrates constitute 92% of life in our ocean. Love ocean content?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2022

There is also $685 million to find new ways to cut carbon emissions from industry. For the first time, the bill also authorizes the federal government to purchase carbon that has been removed from the air or the ocean. DOE’s new Grid Deployment Office will get $59.5

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